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He is very pretty, but their website bothers me because it states there is an 80% chance he will produce black silver dapple when bred to a black mare, and that is just not true, since he is cremello he can not sire a black horse because every foal will carry the cream gene. Although I am sure that a smokey black with silver will look similar as just a black. Is his agouti status known?[/QUOTE]
As far as I know, he does not have an Agouti gene. She hasn’t tested, but he has not produced buckskin out of anything but bay mares. When bred to black, the foals have been silver black each time… but that was just good luck. I don’t know where she got the 80% chance of silver black, maybe based on what he has produced. Mom doesn’t have a great grasp on the color genetics, she’s more concerned with temperament and ridability. I pushed her to test for silver when Mint produced his first silver smokey black foal for us. Of course, he would produce smokey black rather than a simply black… but as the creme gene should not affect black hair the resulting foal would look the same. A silver smokey black would look pretty much identical to a silver black. We have avoided using the term “smokey black” because many people picture it as a kind of gray or grulla… and misunderstand that it refers to the genes, not that actual color. So… if you have a true black mare and she is homozygous for black you have a 50% chance of getting a silver-black. If she is black but carries a red gene then you have a 25% chance of getting silver black.
Here is why I feel like Mint is special though, since there are many breeds and stallions that have the silver gene: Welsh bloodlines are acceptable to most of the European WB registries and Mint has and reproduces the movement that is preferred by them… plus at just 12.2 he will produce ponies out of many WB mares AND he will produce a fancy color when bred to almost any other color (obviously gray can cover his dilution, and a small percentage of black mares could have a plain looking smokey black foal). Did I mention I love this little stallion? LOL I adore him so much, I brought home his half sister out of the same mare… that also has the silver gene! Now I’m searching for a welsh stallion with impressive movement that is homozygous black… know where I can find one!? 
We find out if she is in foal to Escapade at the end of this week.[/QUOTE]
Just look at this beautiful week old filly… 